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Old photo of Sri Lankan kite festival misrepresented as 'anti-government protest tactic'
A photo has circulated in Facebook posts that claim it shows
anti-government demonstrators in Sri Lanka flying kites to disrupt a
military helicopter hovering above a protest site in the capital Colombo
in mid-July. But the image, shared thousands of times, has circulated
in a misleading context. It was actually taken at a kite festival in
Colombo in 2016, years before the current unrest. A journalist who was
at the protest site told agencies the protesters did not fly kites to disrupt
the aircraft.
The picture can be found here